Across the pond

We took the nigh time flight from New York to London, mostly so I could "sleep" as we flew over the ocean. I don't like driving over water, let alone flying over it. Matt said it was a good thing I was sleeping because as we approached Heathrow Airport he watched a big plane fly over us.

Going through customs was interesting, as we waited our turn we watched as a lady had her story torn apart, luckily our story was easy, 3 days for site seeing, and can you recommend the best place for fish and chips?

London is frantically getting ready for the Olympics in 2012, which turned out great for us because they are getting everything wheelchair friendly. All of the new taxis are wheelchair accessible,they look like bowler hats .

We arrived at our hotel, praying that they would have a room that was available for early check in, we only had to wait about 20 min. After we freshened up we went out to explore London.

Our hotel was right off of Picadilly Circus, and within walking distance of most of the sites.

This is the hotel we originally picked out, but Marriott didn't want to play nice. It's the old Parliament building. The big ferris wheel thing is called the London Eye, and yes we went on it ( pictures in the next post).

We were so tired that we just walked around and planed out the next day. We walked across the pedestrian bridge ( the one that gets taken out in Harry Potter) just to realize that there is only an elevator at one end so we walked back.

We had asked the concierge at the hotel where the best fish and chips could be found, well we apparently didn't listen very well and got lost on our way to find it. We found a pub and as we have learned over the years, if you want really good food, find a pub! We ordered the variety plate and some cokes, and realized that the cokes on this trip were going to be few and far between, and that we would come to miss refills.

After dinner we headed back to the hotel to take a quick nap before heading back out. 2 hours later we went and found McDonalds. We just had to try it to see if it was the same as back home.

The burgers are better, but alas the fries are not.